Publications

Publication details [#2243]

Cogen, Cathy and Leora Herrmann. 1975. Interactions of the expression 'Let's just say' with the Gricean maxims of conversation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 1 : 60–68.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Person as a subject

Annotation

The expression 'Let's just say' is described as an explicit marker indicating that in the following stretch of speech a violation of the maxims of conversation is going to occur, and that the violation is meaningful.